Roots Torn, Truth Forgotten
Remembering the Soul of Yoga
A meditation on values, roots, and remembering.
Yoga was never meant to be easy. Not a trend. Not a sale. Not a neatly packaged hour squeezed between meetings.
Yoga has always been a path of return - to essence, to Earth, to the quiet flame of inner knowing.
But as the world shifted, so too did the ways we practise and share it. This is a gentle inquiry - not a judgement - into how our modern systems shape our sacred spaces. And how we, as a community, might remember what lies beneath it all.
🧘🏻♀️From Practice to Product?
Yoga once unfolded slowly. In quiet halls, with simple mats. We gathered not for the burn, but for the stillness. Not for aesthetic, but for awareness.
Classes moved like seasons - 90 minutes long, with time to arrive, breathe, reflect. Teachings included not just poses, but pranayama, myth, philosophy, mantra, and silence.
Now, yoga comes in countless forms: Rocket, Broga, Acro, Power, Beer. 10-minute hits for the algorithm. Retreats that feel more like resorts.
The pace quickens. The scroll deepens. And something ancient risks being forgotten - not gone, but buried beneath the noise.
🎓Training for Depth or Branding?
There was a time when to teach yoga was a sacred vow. Years of practice, mentorship, and spiritual discipline were the threshold.
Now, fast-track trainings offer certifications in weeks. Logos, hashtags, and packages precede lineage or embodied understanding.
Of course, accessibility matters. And yoga should be for everyone. But when depth is traded for speed, and presence for performance - what is being taught? What, truly, are we passing on?
💸The Marketplace of Mindfulness
We live in a world of sales and scarcity. Yoga is not immune.
Studios and teachers offer referral bonuses, flash sales, unlimited bundles. Prices undercut one another in a silent scramble for survival. Even sacred days are co-opted: Black Friday Yoga. Cyber Monday Memberships.
The problem isn’t generosity - it's the why.
Are we inviting access, or playing into a system that values profit over presence? Have we mistaken popularity for purpose?
And still - students click, book, attend. We all participate in the dance of commodification, even as we long to break free.
🌲Rooting in the Yamas
What if we recalibrated? What if our businesses were shaped not by trends, but by Patanjali’s Yamas - the ethical roots of the yogic path?
Ahimsa - non-harming
Satya - truthfulness
Asteya - non-stealing
Aparigraha - non-hoarding
Could our pricing reflect non-violence - to ourselves, our students, our peers? Could we market with truth, not illusion? Set prices that honour experience, rather than steal value through competition? Release the grip of scarcity, and trust in enoughness?
This is not naïveté - it’s radical. It is yoga.
🍄🟫The Mycelium Model
Imagine a yoga economy rooted like a forest.
Each studio a tree. Each teacher a root. Each student a leaf turned toward light. Beneath it all, a mycelial network of shared intention - unseen but essential.
This is not about perfection. It is about practice.
A business rooted in yamas doesn’t reject the world - it nourishes a new one. It swims upstream, slowly, bravely. It becomes a quiet revolution in how we live, share, and sustain.
Tiny shifts. Honest pricing. Mutual care. These small, invisible gestures ripple - butterfly effects in a complex system desperate for meaning.
🔥Reclaiming the Fire
Yoga is not passive. It is not aesthetic. It is practice - fire, courage, commitment, sacrifice.
To walk the yogic path as a teacher, student, or space-holder is to hold a light up against the currents of consumerism.
To choose slowness in a fast world. To remember depth when we are told to perform. To nourish the whole forest, not just our own canopy.
Yoga begins where we live. How we price. How we speak. How we honour each other’s time, labour, lineage.
🕸️Conclusion: Remembering the Invisible
Let our yoga businesses be like woodland roots - interwoven, rich, unseen, alive.
Let us be musk deer - no longer searching for the scent, but remembering it lives within.
Let us walk slowly. Speak honestly. And rebuild this sacred web together - not as brands, but as beings.
✨Let’s Keep the Conversation Going
What does true yoga mean to you in today’s world? How do you balance making a living with practicing and teaching authentically? How do you navigate yoga and capitalism in your practice or business? What does ethical, rooted yoga look like in today’s world?
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योग हमारे तन और मन दोनों के स्वास्थ्य के लिए बेहतरीन योग है। रोजाना योग करने से शरीर न केवल बाहरी गतिविधियों के लिए फिट रहता है, बल्कि नर्वस सिस्टम, पाचन आदि पर भी सकारात्मक प्रभाव पड़ता है। लेकिन किडनी की समस्याओं का सामना कर रहे लोगों को भी योग से काफी फायदा होता है। योग किडनी को हेल्दी रखने में मदद करता है। योग आपकी प्रतिरक्षा प्रणाली को मजबूत करता है और तनाव से छुटकारा पाने में भी मदद करता है। योग उन लोगों के लिए भी बहुत असरकारक है, जो किसी भी बीमारियों से जूझ रहे हैं। योगासन का अभ्यास करना किडनी की बीमारी के इलाज में चमत्कार का काम कर सकता है। विस्तार से जानते हैं किडनी को स्वस्थ रखने के लिए योगासन के बारे में। किडनी के लिए हेल्दी योगासन – किडनी को हेल्दी रखने और इसक समस्याओं को दूर करने के लिए नियमित योग करना बेहद फायदेमंद हो सकता है जैसे कि – अर्धचंद्रासन - इस आसन को करते वक्त शरीर की स्थिति अर्ध चंद्र के समान हो जाती हैं, इसलिए इसे अर्ध चंद्रासन कहते हैं। इस आसन की में त्रिकोण समान भी बनती है इससे इसे त्रिकोणासन भी कह सकते हैं, क्योंकि दोनों के करने में कोई खास अंतर नहीं होता
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Being Injured Isn’t Fun, But It Doesn’t Mean Life Is Paused.
It’s hard telling your body to stop when you have been used to constant movement since you were a child. But listening to your body is much more powerful than pushing through the pain. It enables control and awareness that not all athletes can turn on.
In yoga, we are taught to listen to the body and if something does not feel right, then more than likely the pose is being pushed too far, or passed edge. Instead of wanting a full split and pushing my hips and knees to straighten out, I allow my body to go only as far as it can before any pain or tingling starts in my joints. This allows for a deeper practice with my mind and a more effective practice for my body.
Applying that to my situation, I have been able to back away from the physical activities that I love so I could evaluate my life. I truly believe my shoulder injury has been a blessing in disguise because my life was focused on everything physical; I wasn’t putting any time into my work or the relationships with my friends outside of those activities and so much more.
Although the climbing gym has brought amazing friends into my life, I wasn’t seeing my friends for anything other than climbing buddies, which is absolutely crazy if you know these people because they live some pretty inspiring lives. Just two weeks ago I was offered a position to run social media for a local magazine called St Petian, started by my dear friend Amelia who I did meet at the gym. And through that opportunity I met one of the four founders of a local festival called Et Cultura and was graciously offered to run their social media for the festival. It’s crazy that this has all come from being injured and not being able to spend time at the gym.
It wasn’t until I couldn’t do the things that I love for me to find opportunity and ambition to try other things. So if you’re injured, don't get bummed. Get up and find something that can serve you in another way you aren’t used to. Volunteer, help out locally, go around doing good deeds, who cares! Don’t stop living because part of your body needs rest.
I can't say it enough - do things that scare you.
At the beginning of 2016 I fiercely walked into @verticalventures and got over my fears of trying new, active things AND heights. Not only did I gain consciousness, I made a ton of friends.
Fast forward to now and those friends helped me in getting the jobs of Instagram and Snapchat Advisor for @stpetian and @etcultura_stpete at the 5 day festival.After 30+ hours over the course of 5 days, I was privileged in meeting over 100 local and transient artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, photographers, writers and makers. Honestly, what a rush & what an experience. I am so grateful. Thank you Amelia and Joel for making this weekend one I want to believe as my turning point in getting more involved in St Pete. Thank you everyone!
I love you, St Pete
Thank you to all the new followers and old followers for all the love I have been receiving! Man, over 5,000 followers and almost close to 5,500! What?! Thanks Tumblr for featuring me! Much love, and happy yoga practicing to all! Namaste. :)
